The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Kansas Legislature.


The senate was not In session on tue
1ath.-.-1 In the House a few bills were intro
duced- Among them bill TO regulate elections, |,
bill relating to roads and highways; OIL
relating to billiard tables and bowling alleSs.
Mr. Bond introduced bill to stop the use OF
to1Aeeo at places Of public worship. There was
long discussion upon the question OF visiting
Wichita 1t was finally agreed by vote OF
a TO y TO make the excursion on Friday, the
18th extending the trip to Hutchinson and
Mcpherson Adjourned
THE Senate met at four p m. on the 18th
and passed the following bills: Making appro-
priations for the penitentiary; providing for
three Commissioners of the Supreme Court, and
several local bills .... The House also met at
four O'Clock and several bills were introduced
Among the bills passed was the bill to restore
and define the boundaries OF the counties OF
Seward. Stevens and Morton, and number OF
bills purely of a local character, Adjourned
AMONG the petitions presented to the
Senate on the 18th was one from seventy boys
and eighty-one girls praying for more stringent
prohibitory laws The following bill was passed:
To amend chapter 1S3 OF session laws 1887, being
"An act relating to statistics and amendatory
of section Z, chapter O., session laws, 1910 ---
In the House, bills were introduced and the
work Of the morning session was mostly rou-
tine. At the afternoon session labor bills were
considered in Committee OF the Whole and the
/ following recommended for passage: Providing
that all laborers and employees OF corporations
shall be paid in lawful money. THE object OF
| this measure is to abolish system OF several
coal companies in Southeastern Kansas OF pay
ing their employees in scrip. The House bill on
this subject was substituted for the Senate
bill; providing for weekly payments; fixing a
| legal days work at eight hours: to encourage
cooperative societies among artisans and labor
ers; increasing the salary OF the Labor Com
missioner from 81 900 to 81 800; to amend the
Pharmacy law. When the committee rose the
House adjourned.
IN the Senate on the 10Th a bill was intro
duced providing for the police government of
certain cities through board Of police COM
missioners appointed by the Executive Council,
in certain contingencies. Nearly the whole day
was spent In Committee of the Whole e. In the
House many petitions were presented and many
bills introduced The House then had lively
debate in Committee of the Whole upon the bill
creating the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth and
Twenty-seventh Judicial districts The bill
was finally recommended for passage. At the
afternoon session Mr.. Fockele's Forestry BILL
which provides for an exemption Of 800 for each
acre of forest trees planted and cultivated in
the State, and for every acre Of fruit trees an
exemption of $50 for five years, was recon-
mended for passage. At the evening session
number of bills passed, mostly of local char
acter.
IN the Senate on the 18th the special CON-
mittee reported favorably upon the proposition
to visit Wichita ON the 18th Several bills were
introduced The University Appropriation bill
passed. Many other bills passed. most OF them
of a local nature. Adjourned In the House
many bills were introduced. The resolution
permitting the committee to investigate the
charges against Superintendent Walker, of the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, to employ a steno
grapher and subpoena witnesses was indefinitely
postponed After mapping out course for the
Wichita excursion the House took a recess. Al
the afternoon session bills were considered in
Committee of the Whole. Mr.. Cables bill fol
minority representation on State boards was
recommended for indefinite postponement. The
bill known as the Eight-Hour law failed to pass
Adjourned to Monday morning.